Megathread for news/updates/discussion about Twitter
Not sure it will be worth a full megathread, but there is some news.
Not sure it will be worth a full megathread, but there is some news.
I'm not sure anything quite like this has happened before. What problems could happen as a result of this?
@OptaPaolo: 1 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the oldest goalscorer in the Serie A history (41 years and 166 days), overtaking Alessandro Costacurta (41 years and 25 days, in May 2007). Historical.#UdineseMilan pic.twitter.com/kXfx6yhJLy
Part 1, Part 2
@Sam (from Wendover): One thing I hate is just how well negativity works. Of our top 10 performers over the past year, eight (in my view) include direct or indirect negativity in the title/thumbnail. (A🧵) pic.twitter.com/tqIz9v6CTh
Starting on Thursday night, Twitter cut off API access for some of the biggest third party clients.
It’s hard to tell whether the third-party client outage is due to the API. Attempting certain calls from my individual Twitter developer account seemed to work, while Twitter’s own API explorer tool is currently broken.
It definitely seems like it is on purpose. For it to last this long without any update definitely makes it feel like it was done on purpose. Many developers' apps have started showing up as "suspended". In looking at my own account, I can see that both Tweetbot and Fenix are gone from my list of connected apps.
The Icon Factory (makers of Twitteriffic) have a blog post about it as well.
The complete silence from Twitter is completely baffling. Burning more than a decade of working with developers overnight seems incredibly stupid. As Paul Hadad, one of the makers of Tweetbot said:
Even during the darkest Twitter 1.0 days they were pretty open about what they were doing. I remember getting a call prior to the 4 quadrants token limit where they explained what was going to happen and answered questions. I wasn't happy but at least felt there was respect.
Part 2. Previous one here.
@Shion Takeuchi: I'm sorry guys, it's true.💔#insidejob pic.twitter.com/MQZJ3S7gRD
@Ysbryd Games: Cosmic horror RPG #WORLDOFHORROR from @panstasz will exit Early Access and launch in Summer 2023 for:* PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4* Switch * PC via Steam, GOG, Microsoft Store, and https://t.co/L8aU7LyQ58 Who is ready to go to Shiokawa? 🐙 pic.twitter.com/2CIoAG1Sqr
@Shaun Lintern: 🚨 @UHDBTrust declared a critical incident last night - cancelling all meetings and training to ensure clinical staff "are on wards and patient facing" pic.twitter.com/vLxUHwLZPD
The chaos doesn't seem likely to end anytime soon, does it?
@Jason Kilar: The @WSJ asked me to write about the streaming wars and the future of media. Here is the essay + a Twitter thread which covers a few of the main points. https://t.co/BzRQIEAZMY via @WSJ
@tgm_series: tgm_series株式会社ハムスター様に「TETRIS THE GRAND MASTER」のNintendoSwitch及びPlaystation4への移植許諾した事をお知らせします。We are pleased to announce that we have licensed "TETRIS THE GRAND MASTER" to Hamster Inc. for porting to NintendoSwitch and Playstation4.
As with many Twitter users, I'm finally at the point where I want to leave and join Mastodon. About a year ago I set up an account after seeing some people on Tildes talk about it, but I found it confusing and ultimately closed the account. I want to give it another go, but I'm a bit confused about all the different instance options, what the practical differences are, and more. Are there any comprehensive getting started guides? Does it matter which instance I join? How did you choose for yourself?
@Risk of Rain 2: Risk of Rain joins the Gearbox family. pic.twitter.com/EjlOUVi0Hq
@Erin Reed: A dark day for trans youth.Florida Board of Medicine has just voted to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers.They cut the hearing early and told activists to "email them."I cry for Florida's trans youth. This was a sham hearing with fake experts. pic.twitter.com/JORaHN4uFA
@Marcel Hampel | on PATREON: Found this beautiful image from the new Mario Trailer.Just for fun, I started to analyze the composition. See the thread below! 🧵⬇️ pic.twitter.com/dWOLTH0Q53
@Scorigami: SEA 48 - 45 DETFinalThat's Scorigami!! It's the 1073rd unique final score in NFL history.
@Rockstar Games: A Message from Rockstar Games pic.twitter.com/T4Wztu8RW8
@Benjamin Powers: Mudge walking through Twitter's construction - they only have live production environment, no test environment.
@🅻-🆃🅴🅰🅼: ⭕️The car of the daughter of public figure & philosopher Alexander Dugin exploded near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy 👉According to preliminary data, Daria Dugina was inside.👉Political circles in the West believe that Dugin is the brains behind #Russia's annexation of #Crimea pic.twitter.com/UMFjwYY9G5
@NASA: It's here-the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I pic.twitter.com/zAr7YoFZ8C